Comment on What is the current state of Matrix?

• suzune@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If users cannot do anything because all encryption keys are lost, then they need to know that and also how to avoid the situation in the future.

  I think it’s not a bug. It’s simply no one online who can share a decryption key.

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  • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    its often a bug, because the clients who have the keys don’t know they should retry sending.

    but also it’s all been fixed a year ago as I know. I don’t usually use dm rooms and public ones are not encrypted, so I wouldn’t know if I didn’t read about it.

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  • JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Matrix encryption keys don’t need other people online - they get queued up as messages for each device you have.

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    • suzune@ani.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      matrix.org/docs/…/end-to-end-encryption/

      Key sharing When an event cannot be decrypted due to missing keys, a client may want to request them from other clients which may have them.

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      • JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That page seemed outdated, but: From further down that page:

        The recommended strategy is to share the keys automatically only to verified devices of the same user

        This is the same situation where the key backup is accessible - which is not described on that page, but it’s a key store of all the megolm keys. This is what is now generally used instead of that as it doesn’t require devices to be online and allows recovering keys if all devices are lost.

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